Women's Entrepreneurship Policy. A Global Perspective

0568430 - SOÚ 2024 RIV GB eng M - Monography Chapter
Jurik, N. - Křížková, Alena - Pospíšilová, Marie - Cavender, G.
Institutional work in Czech and US business assistance programmes and implications for entrepreneurial inclusion.
Women's Entrepreneurship Policy. A Global Perspective. Cheltenham: Edwar Eldgar Publishing, 2023 - (Henry, C.; Coleman, S.; Lewis, K.), s. 123-161. ISBN 978-1-80037-464-5
R&D Projects: GA ČR(CZ) GA21-13587S
Institutional support: RVO:68378025
Keywords : institutional theory * institutional work * business assistance programs * entrepreneurial inclusion * intersectionality
OECD category: Sociology

We use the institutional work approach to examine how business assistance programs (BAP) approach male-centric business contexts. Analyzing interviews in the Czech Republic, and the US, we ask do the institutional work of BAP staff and business experts foster increased entrepreneurial inclusivity or the reinforcement of male-centric business models? Although some BAPs took a business-as-usual approach and saw no need to tailor their services to women or other transitional entrepreneurs, others developed more inclusive assistance models. Policy implications include provision of more stable support for BAP programming that addresses the diversity of entrepreneur needs and the assessment of family and entrepreneurship policy effects on women and other transitional entrepreneurs. Lessons can be learned from some temporary Covid-19 pandemic measures, for example, the care allowance for parents in CR extended to entrepreneurs during the Covid-19 pandemic only, which should be made permanent.
Permanent Link: https://hdl.handle.net/11104/0339744